Miguel McMinn

£6,000! Thanks to the generosity of the birding community, my 300pp guide to Birding Cadiz Province has now raised 6x more in donations to the @alzheimerssoc.bsky.social in Liz's memory than I dared hope. PM me with your email address if you'd like a copy. Please share! Heartfelt thanks to all 🪶

This scene looks attractive, until you realise that only a single thing – a wild sessile oak to the rear – is native here.

It's fake 'nature', and virtually worthless to wildlife.

Two great first days of birding on Flores (Azores) with the french/swiss team: Dickcissel, Ovenbird, YB Cuckoo, 5 RE Vireos and Subalpine Warbler(!). Plenty more to find, as good numbers seem to have arrived quite a while ago. The island is huge (and beautiful), and we have it all to ourselves.

⛈️ A partir del jueves 9 podrían producirse lluvias abundantes en el Mediterráneo.

➡️Situación sujeta todavía a gran incertidumbre, que vendría provocada una combinación de aire frío en las capas altas de la troposfera y vientos húmedos en superficie.

Seguiremos informando.

🌀A partir de ahora, las danas más adversas llevarán nombre propio, al igual que sucede con las borrascas.

➡️El nombramiento de las danas con gran impacto ayudará a evitar que se las asocie de manera unívoca con impactos graves o catastróficos.

+ info👉
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7 octubre de 1952: patente del código de barras (el primer boceto era circular), pero no fue hasta 1966 cuando utilizarse comercialmente esta revolucionaria tecnología.

7 de octubre de 1991, muere en Roma la escritora y política italiana Natalia Levi, conocida como Natalia Ginzburg. letraslibres.com/literatura/p...

Excited to share this, and grateful to everyone who made it possible.

The key message is important: acknowledge those who make what you do possible, regardless of their training or background!
#InclusiveScience #authorship #CitizenScience

Fantastic recovery of one of this year’s Chough nestlings. Ringed at Ballybranigan, East Cork, ‘SIT’ was seen yesterday 72km east near Tramore in Waterford. The furthest east one of our birds have ventured, but also the biggest juvenile dispersal @npwsireland.bsky.social @btobirds.bsky.social

6th October Although we were logging some tremendous numbers of grounded arrivals during the fair weather in late September, today's clear skies weren't...

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Filling in the gaps of pterosaur evolution paleontology, palaeontology, dinosaurs, Palaeontologia Electronica, Palaeontologica Electronica, Paleontologia Electronica, Paleontologica Electronica

Filling in the gaps of pterosaur evolution
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Good morning! Here’s your minute of peace & calm.

To enjoy the full 10-minute sunrise, watch here: youtu.be/EqtXUCbQIEc?...

#OceanDevotion

Lost on the Frontier - American Birding Association Conjectures—and some evidence—regarding why the Gray-headed Chickadee may have been extirpated from the ABA Area.

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#ornithology

EARLY VIEW in IBIS

Inadequate reproductive success is a potential cause of Spotted Flycatcher (Muscicapa striata) population decline in England | onlinelibrary.wiley....

Malcolm D. Burgess et al | #ornithology 🪶

A collection of puffins is known as a circus 🎪 though they don’t juggle or ride unicycles 🤓 Farne Islands 2025

The circus is in town

#seabirds #ukwildlife
#photography

Naturalists for Palestine Naturalists for Palestine is a call from individuals and organisations in the UK nature sector to stand for an end to the genocide in Gaza, and to the suffering and oppression of the people of Palesti...

We are all implicated in this UK-backed genocide & ecocide, against our wishes.

We must all stand up for the better world we wish to enjoy and share.

#N4P #Naturalists4Palestine

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La UNIA realiza un taller de iniciación al estudio de mariposas y escarabajos La Universidad Internacional de Andalucía ( UNIA ) realiza el 'Taller de iniciación al estudio y conservación de mariposas y escarabajos : una puerta a la biodiversidad ', organizado por la Cátedra UN...

🦋 🐞 Entre el 2 y 4 de octubre la Universidad Internacional de Andalucía organizó un taller de iniciación al estudio y conservación de mariposas y escarabajos, con salidas de campo diurnas y nocturnas y técnicas de identificación de especies.

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Today's #BirdOfTheDay is going to be all about 'Sea Birds' or the Alternative will be 'Robins'.

#birds #photography #EastCoastKin

From my archives, a Double-crested #Cormorant in breeding plumage.

The cheekiest goanna I’ve ever seen! 🥰

Tiny Tubes Reveal Clues to the Evolution of Complex Life | Quanta Magazine Scientists have identified tubulin structures in primitive Asgard archea that may have been the precursor of our own cellular skeletons.

Tiny Tubes Reveal Clues to the Evolution of Complex Life www.quantamagazine.org/tiny-tubes-r...

Prospect of life on Saturn’s moons rises after discovery of organic substances Scientists studying water vapour plume from Enceladus find presence of complex molecules that could harbour life

"All the signals are green here for Enceladus"
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Volucella elegans en las dalias del RJB-CSIC.

In South America, Bird Migration Is Slow and Steady Blackburnian Warbler in Colombia by Linda Rudolph / Macaulay Library. From the Autumn 2025 issue of Living Bird magazine. Subscribe now. For birders in the U.S. and Canada, fall migration means the…

New radar research is revealing how long-distance bird migrants change the pace of their migration once they reach South America. #ornithology

Graphic displays a Cormorant photographed by John Harding/BTO (left) and a Shag photographed by Liz Cutting/BTO (right). The species are labelled with their English and Latin names, Phalacrocorax carbo and Phalacrocorax aristotelis, respectively. Each image is labelled with key identifying features. For the Cormorant, these are: 'Heavy bill and a gradually sloped forehead', 'White chin', 'Blue sheen', 'White patch on thigh', and 'Variable amounts of white in the neck'. For the Shag, these are: 'Breeding crest', 'Green sheen', 'Lacks white in chin and neck', and 'Light bill and a steeply sloped forehead'. The Seabird Monitoring Programme logo is found in the bottom right hand corner. The caption reads: '1/ 1/ Despite a reasonable difference in size, Cormorants and Shags can be quite difficult to differentiate unless side by side! In this thread ⬇️, we take a look at some of the key differences between adults and juveniles... #seabirds #birds @btobirds.bsky.social @jncc.bsky.social @rspb.bsky.social'

1/ Despite a reasonable difference in size, Cormorants and Shags can be quite difficult to differentiate unless side by side!

In this thread ⬇️, we take a look at some of the key differences between adults and juveniles... #seabirds #birds @btobirds.bsky.social @jncc.bsky.social @rspb.bsky.social

Cuando la entomología llama a la puerta de tu casa 😍.

Preciosa ejemplar de la polilla Utetheisa pulchella (Fam. Erebidae) que vino a visitarme esta mañana al balcón. Sus colores aposemáticos alertan de su mal sabor y toxicidad (acumulan alcaloides de las 🌱).

🐛 Las larvas se alimentan de...

Notes on the breeding population of the Polynesian Storm Petrel Nesofregetta fuliginosa on Motu Motiro Hiva (Salas y Gómez Island), eastern South Pacific | http://marineornitho... | Marine Ornithology | #ornithology 🪶

Ja fa dies que podem observar blauets (Alcedo atthis) a les zones d’hivernada.
Tot un goig poder gaudir de la fletxa blava !

Our first @btobirds.bsky.social Winter Bird Survey at Ludshott Common, Hampshire, today. Don't know if you can hear but there's a Woodlark singing his head off like it's the first day of Spring. Also Siskin, Redpoll, Crossbill, Dartford, Linnet and Stonechat in this one spot.

Come work with me!!
It will be fun.
#seabirds

Body surface temperatures as biomarkers of physiological environmental adaptation in wild birds and mammals | onlinelibrary.wiley.... | Biological Reviews | #ornithology 🪶